12 Connected Topics

Powerful productivity apps that connect several relevant topics together in one place.

Stop hopping between notes apps, list apps, shopping apps, task apps, etc. Because of our rich support of topics, you can do much more than with overly simplistic list apps.

Tasks + Projects

Plan projects and get things done

The Tasks + Projects topic is for planning and execution of what you want to get done. Includes due dates, context tags, priorities, statuses, effort sizings, participants, task owners, and audio, photo, and video notes.

The easier it is to manage all the information about what you want to get done, the more productive you will be. Tasks + Projects gives you the ability to enter, organize, prioritize, track and check off even the most complex tasks and projects in the most streamlined, natural and easy-to-understand way imaginable.

For followers of the GTD® method, get all of your tasks out of your head by using Inboxes. Gather all your projects and tasks through email or other ways and instantly convert these items to projects or tasks to be managed in the Tasks + Projects topic at a later, scheduled time. Simplify choosing next actions by tagging your tasks with contexts and grouping your tasks by multiple contexts. Are you a user of Google, Toodledo or Asana tasks? No problem. Sync your tasks from those online services or sync LightArrow tasks to your online services.

The power of the Tasks + Projects topic is in the association of related information you have already entered into other areas of the app — such as events or trips you are planning, education assignments or health procedures — you don’t have to re-enter information in multiple places in separate applications like you would with other apps. Even better, you can create tasks and projects directly from within the context of those other topics. It is a better way to manage all your activities and a more efficient way to organize them.

Some people like to shop and some people dread nothing more. No matter how you feel about it, you’ll love the Shopping + Gifts topic. This topic allows you to do much more than create a grocery list — it allows you to build a collection of products that you buy for your home or business. It helps you to organize the information for the products you buy, the stores you frequent, coupons and the gifts you give and receive — all in context with everything else you do in your daily life.

Alerts, reminders and calendar items help you to stay on top of the products you need to buy. With the Near Me view, powered by foursquare®, search for food, shops and businesses near you. If you wish, you can convert these businesses to Places, Sellers, Banks or Service Providers in your LightArrow app directly from the Near Me view. This way, the seller’s information is always at your fingertips. And if you use online sellers, you can keep track of your usernames and passwords, which are secured with military grade 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption.

Through the power of integration, your shopping information is available across topics. For example, the items you need to buy for any events you are planning in the Events topic automatically show up in your Shopping lists. The result is much better organized views of everything you buy, need to buy, or had bought for you and where you shop.

Organizing events and appointments can be difficult with traditional calendars. The Events + Appointments topic helps you to easily set up appointments, reminders, events, iOS events and iOS reminders — all from one view. They also work seamlessly with your iOS calendars and other calendars that your iOS devices supports.

The Events + Appointments topic delivers powerful out-of-the-box capabilities beyond anything you would expect from an event planning application. In addition to handling basic event information like event date, location, invitees and co-hosts, seamless integration with other topics enables access to all the related information you have already captured elsewhere including contacts, shopping lists, tasks, photos and projects. You can also email all your co-hosts or invitees from one view, which makes discussing event details with guests, coworkers and co-hosts easy. Are you planning a wedding, birthday party or other event that requires RSVPs? Mark those who have confirmed their response in a few simple taps.

Once your events are created, you can view everything on your LightArrow app and your device calendars. This spares you from time-consuming data entry and gives you more time to plan your events. Best of all, this integration is two-way.

Travel + Places

Simplify your trip and vacation planning

The Travel + Places topic allows you to track trips you plan to take or the visitors you will be receiving. It includes dates, destinations, companions, context tags, and locations. Associate tasks, shopping items, appointments, reminders, notes, photos, video, and more with trips and visits.

When you take trips for work or pleasure or when family and friends come to visit you, you know that everything goes more smoothly with preparation. If only you had a solution in the palm of your hands that would make all that planning easier. Enter the Travel + Places topic.

For all your trips and visits, the Travel + Places topic lets you easily track the start date, end date and description, lets you set reminders and notes and has touchpoints into every other relevant topic. It also helps you take note of places of interest to you in your day-to-day life — your favorite restaurants, the best yoga studios, fun attractions, etc.

With the Travel + Places bookmarks, you can always find the websites associated with your hotel, transportation, airline and reservations — and the associated usernames and passwords for those websites, which are secured with military grade 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption. The result is more organized and enjoyable trips and visits and more personal time with less effort.

Contacts + Services

Manage services and customer or personal relationships

The Contacts + Services enables organization of contact information for customer relationship management or for personal contacts. It includes tracking of the services you receive including account information, service dates, bills, and payment information. Track service providers from whom you receive services, including ratings. It also leverages your device’s Contacts application.

Many of us have numerous contacts for service providers, clients, prospects, friends, family and organizations that we keep track of every day. The Contacts + Services topic helps you to manage professional relationships; doctors, dentists and fitness professionals for your health; legal, banking and investment professionals for your financial management; utilities and domestics for your household maintenance; and more.

If you are running a small or micro business or freelancing, you most likely have a variety of prospects and clients that you visit and manage. This topic provides powerful customer relationship management features for keeping track of many aspects of your prospects and clients — all while on the go. Organize contacts into groups; read their Tweets and Facebook posts directly from their contact record; add custom fields to contacts (in-app purchase); use GTD® context tags; and associate appointment, tasks, reminders, files and more with your contacts. Furthermore, you can communicate via email or text to an entire group, or connect with individuals via phone, text, email or social media via their contact record — directly from your LightArrow app.

Contacts + Services dramatically extends the usefulness of your device’s contacts manager by giving you the ability to keep track of relevant information — such as ratings and referral information for service providers, service and account information associated with each of your service providers and more. You have the option of creating custom forms and fields for contacts; managing contacts in a spreadsheet-like view; importing contacts; and associating tasks, appointments, reminders and more to contacts.

Health + Goals

Optimize your success and health

The Health + Goals topic provides you with a single source for recording all your goals, health, fitness and wellness stats. Track any user-defined goal, such as “Improve Sales by 20%” or “Run a Marathon,” and log multiple items for it. Keep track of health statistics such as weight, blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar and body fat; your medications and prescriptions; and your health history such as procedures, treatments and wellness.

Tracking your goals, health, activities and fitness pushes you to stay focused on your personal, business and fitness goals. Self-tracking helps you to know what is working, and it also helps you to decide when to adjust your plan.

The Health + Goals topic provides you with a single source for recording all your goals, health, fitness and wellness stats. Track any user-defined goal, such as “Improve Sales by 20%” or “Run a Marathon,” and log multiple items for it. Keep track of health statistics such as weight, blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar and body fat; your medications and prescriptions; and your health history such as procedures, treatments and wellness. Robust logging capabilities track your food and drink intake, your workout activities, your insurance providers and regular health checkups. Useful charts with metrics let you see trends and view progress.

Smart integration with other topics means that as you are entering information for a health procedure, for example, you can enter associated tasks, shopping items and providers, and that information will show up automatically in the Tasks + Projects and Contacts + Services topics.

Most people find that managing their money can be difficult, which is where the Finances topic comes in. It lets you track all the accounts for all your financial institutions — checking, savings and money market accounts; credit and debit cards; CD’s, etc. You can record the recurring bill payments for all the services you utilize and the one-time payments you make to others, and can show you all of these payments in a timeline view.

With the Finances topic, you can also create Service Payment Templates for billing purposes — keeping track of the recipient, type of service, amount and payment type. This topic lets you track expenses and has touchpoints into other topics so that you can view or edit, for example, your charitable donations, your investments, or your financial research, online services and more. The result is the capacity for better money management.

Assets

Get a complete view of your assets

The Assets topic allows you to track what you own or rent. Includes vendors, purchase dates and prices, current values, manufacturers, model numbers, serial numbers, insurance, maintenance and repairs, and warranty services.

Keeping track of what you own is a very wise idea. Whether your desire is to be fully prepared for insurance reasons, or to gain an accurate understanding of your overall financial situation, you need to know what you own and what it’s worth. But managing all this information can be time-consuming — unless you have the Assets topic.

This topic lets you track all the important information you want to track for your assets, including acquisition date and price, vendor, serial number or vehicle identification number, manufacturer, model number and SKU. It even has a touchpoint into Contacts + Services so you can maintain warranty and insurance information for your assets. The result is a better understanding of all your possessions.

When you have things you desire to learn, you want to focus your time and energy on that, not on logistics. The Education topic makes learning easier by providing you with robust organizational capabilities for all your education-related data. With the Education topic, you can track Education projects, classes you are taking and your assignments. Alerts, reminders and calendar items help you to stay on top of your assignments.

The Education topic is integrated with other topics. Create your class notes in the Notes + Files topic or associate your class notes to subjects or assignments from Evernote® or Toodledo® online services. You can also access related documents and resources for school, work or personal growth subject areas from Dropbox™, OneDrive™, Box™ and Google Drive™. The result is better learning with less time and effort — and while on the go.

One of the most powerful features of your mobile device is its ability to keep you connected. Notes + Files, Lists leverages this connectivity to give you unprecedented mobile access to your electronic information no matter where you are. With the dynamic note taking capabilities, you can create text, audio, video, photos or handwritten drawings and notes, which lets you gather notes and journal entries anywhere you go.

With the Notes + Files topic, create single use or reusable checklists and to-do lists for items such as things to do daily or anything else you can possibly imagine through the impressive checklist and to-do list capabilities. If you are a user of Evernote® or Toodledo® notes, sync those hosted notes with your LightArrow app notes. Or, create LightArrow app notes directly in your LightArrow app and view and edit them from those services. Access online files from Dropbox™, OneDrive™, Box™ and Google Drive™ and associate these files to topic items, such as projects, events and more. You can also save hosted documents on your local device for safekeeping so that you can access these files later when you are offline.

The Notes + Files, Lists topic integrates with other topics so you can, for example, access your electronic resources from within the Education or Travel + Places topics. The result is information that is always available.

Your device has been designed specifically to support multiple types of media, including audio, video and photos. And while its applications for playing songs, watching video and looking at photos allow you to perform some organization, what you really want to be able to do is to associate media items such as audio, photos, videos and handwritten notes/drawings with items in the context of topics, such as Task + Projects, Travel + Places, Home + Assets, etc. This is precisely what you can do in the Media topic.

Bookmarks + Lockers

Organize online information, private information and passwords

Bookmarks + Lockers allows you to organize and remember all the websites that you frequently visit, to manage the usernames and passwords that you use, and to secure private information.

If you’ve been dreaming of an app that helps you remember all the websites that you frequently visit; keeps track of the usernames and passwords that you use; and keeps private information private, then your dreams have come true with the Bookmarks + Lockers topics.

Browse the web directly in the app and simply save the web pages that you frequent in one simple click. Bookmarks make it simple to get back to your favorite locations and once you save a Bookmark you can associate it with items such as projects, events, trips and more.

If you set up passwords for hosted email, shopping sites and other bookmarked websites, simply save your username and password in the Bookmarks + Lockers topic and access them when visiting the site after typing your secret PIN. All secured with military grade 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption.

With Lockers, keep private information private by saving secret information for data you wish to secure. Lockers support text, photos and audio. Common uses include storage of photos of credit cards, passports, secret receipts, as well as sensitive audio files and PINs.